FACULTY

• Focused on heart failure, pulmonary hypertension and infant heart transplant.
• Pediatric Cardiology Consultant at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)(since March 2019).
• Medical Director of the Children's Transplant program of the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona (2011- February 2019).
• Director of the Master Degree in congenital heart diseases from foetus toadult at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
• Master’s Degree in Telemedicine by the UOC (Open University of Catalonia).
• President of the Spanish Society of Paediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease (SECPCC), 2010-2016.
• Member of the Educational Committee of the Association for the European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC).
• Pediatric Cardiologist in the Quiron Clinic -Barcelona

Contact:

• Email: dimpnacalila@gmail.com
• Email: dcalbert@kfshrc.edu.sa
• https://www.quironsalud.es/hospital-barcelona

• Tiene una amplia experiencia en el tratamiento médico y perioperatorio de neonatos, niños y adultos jóvenes con cardiopatía congénita o adquirida compleja, incluido el trasplante de corazón, la asistencia mecánica y la mejora de la calidad, la seguridad y la eficacia clínica.
• Founder of the Working Group on Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care of the Association for the European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC).
• Deputy Chair and co-founder of the Section on Haemodynamics and Heart Disease of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC).
• Board Member of the Congenital Domain of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS).
• Member of the Society of Pediatric Research (SPR) and of multiple international Societies.
• President of Surgeons of Hope Foundation.

Contacto:

• Email: eduardo.dacruz@childrenscolorado.org

• Dr. Roberto Canessa was born in Uruguay in 1953. He is a member of the Cardiac Transplant Team, Director of the Department of Cardiac Ultrasound and Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Diseases, and a researcher of Foetal Cardiology allat the Italian Hospital of Montevideo. Professor in Paediatric Cardiology (postgraduate degree) at the Uruguay Faculty of Medicine.
• Fellow of the North American Society of Echocardiography (PHASE)
• He was a member of the Assembly of the Faculty of Medicine of Uruguay.
• Dr. Roberto Canessa was 19 years old when he climbed in the Andes with his friend Fernando Parrado. They were survivors of a plane crash in the southern Andes. For 10 days, at heights of more than 5,000 meters and with temperatures as low as -30º, they were searching to rescue 14 other rugby players,who remained around the fuselage at 3,500 metres.
• He was President of the Old Christian's Club for 8 years. During this period, the Los Tréboles Solidarity Foundation was created, through which the club provides support and education to children. Also at that time the club received the Spirit of Rugby Award from the IRB (International Rugby Board) in London, for their sporting attitude in continuing to compete for the "Friendship Cup", in honour of their companions killed in the Andes. This event is still held 45 years after the tragedy.
• Rugby player for the Uruguayan national teamfrom 1971 to 1979. He was top try scorer for several seasons in the National Championship, representing Uruguay in the South America XV team that travelled to South Africa in support of the end of Apartheid.
• He gives professional advice to the most prestigious universities and companies in the world that continue to hire his services.
• He is married, with three children and his greatest joy at this moment is being a grandfather.